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Seven stories are trying to answer the question: what is sex? Or maybe they are not trying.Seven stories are trying to answer the question: what is sex? Or maybe they are not trying.Seven stories are trying to answer the question: what is sex? Or maybe they are not trying.
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- David Reuben(from the book "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask" by)
- Woody Allen(written for the screen by)
- Stars
- David Reuben(from the book "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask" by)
- Woody Allen(written for the screen by)
- Stars
Toni Holt Kramer
- Toni Holt
- (as Toni Holt)
Heather MacRae
- Helen Lacey
- (as Heather Macrae)
- David Reuben(from the book "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask" by)
- Woody Allen(written for the screen by)
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Did you know
- TriviaAccording to the book "Woody Allen" by John Baxter, Gene Wilder once said of the making of this movie: "It was like walking on a Bergman set: people talking in whispers, serious looks on Woody's face. He communicates through silence."
- GoofsAt the end of the fourth segment the transvestite man's wife exclaims: "The look on their faces when the police removed your hat!" and the man laughs in response. But it was actually the man himself who had removed his hat on being recognized by his wife.
- Crazy creditsOpening and closing credits shown over footage of rabbits.
- Alternate versionsAfter being banned in Ireland on March 20 1973, a cut version was passed in 1979 and theatrically released in 1980. This edited:
- the scene in which a shepherd goes to see a doctor and tells him how he has fallen in love with a sheep. The line, "the greatest lay I ever had" was removed.
- The bread intercourse scene was removed entirely.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood vs. Religion (1994)
- SoundtracksLet's Misbehave
(1927)
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
RCA Records
Played and Sung offscreen during the opening and closing credits by Irving Aaronson and His Commanders (uncredited)
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Uneven but sometimes brilliant series of sketches about sex.
While all the early Woody Allen films are funny and worthwhile, this is probably the most uneven to my taste.
Allen took the famous, serious non-fiction book about sex, and turned it into a series of short comedy pieces. A couple segments are pure genius (inside the male body during sex, Gene Wilder falling in love with a sheep), a couple are pretty good (Woody as a medieval court jester trying to have an affair with the queen, who is locked into a chastity belt, a mad scientist creates a giant milk squirting breast that goes on a rampage) and a few are real duds.
Also, of all the Allen films, this might have the worst DVD print/transfer quality.
It's bizarre and disturbing is that a lot of Allen's brilliant early work seems to be going out of print. Hopefully this is just a temporary state of affairs, and better re-releases are ahead. But if you're a fan you might want to grab copies of this, Bananas, Sleeper, Take the Money and Run, etc now, while you can.
Allen took the famous, serious non-fiction book about sex, and turned it into a series of short comedy pieces. A couple segments are pure genius (inside the male body during sex, Gene Wilder falling in love with a sheep), a couple are pretty good (Woody as a medieval court jester trying to have an affair with the queen, who is locked into a chastity belt, a mad scientist creates a giant milk squirting breast that goes on a rampage) and a few are real duds.
Also, of all the Allen films, this might have the worst DVD print/transfer quality.
It's bizarre and disturbing is that a lot of Allen's brilliant early work seems to be going out of print. Hopefully this is just a temporary state of affairs, and better re-releases are ahead. But if you're a fan you might want to grab copies of this, Bananas, Sleeper, Take the Money and Run, etc now, while you can.
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- runamokprods
- Jun 17, 2010
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